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WHAT IS A DAVOS MAN?: 5/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 24 December 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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WHAT IS A DAVOS MAN?: 5/8: The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America by Victor Davis Hanson

https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying/dp/154164753X

In The Dying Citizen, Hanson outlines the historical forces that led to this crisis. The evisceration of the middle class over the last fifty years has made many Americans dependent on the federal government. Open borders have undermined the idea of allegiance to a particular place. Identity politics have eradicated our collective civic sense of self. And a top-heavy administrative state has endangered personal liberty, along with formal efforts to weaken the Constitution.

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With Victor Davis Handsome, Professor Classicist at Hoover Institution, the author of the new book The Dying Citizen,

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how progressive elites, tribalism, and globalization are destroying the ideas of America.

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The middle class, the citizen, a foundation for the success of the United States, around and

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built upon and depending upon the Constitution of the United States.

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Victor addresses in his book what he characterizes as evolutionaries.

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These are men and women in America, perhaps around the world, who find the Constitution no longer useful.

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Victor, we begin with the example that comes up now and again when the popular vote goes to the loser in a presidential contest.

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